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Why did Derek kick the cards across the computer centre?

Newsletter – August 2022 As well as anticipating at least one of my future ‘careers’, my final year undergraduate degree project with the promising title ‘Computer Programming for Flow over Side Weirs’ granted me access to the university Computer Centre. I remember it as a circular building, though perhaps it was octagonal. More importantly, it …

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An AI that thinks it’s a werewolf or ‘nonsense on stilts’

Newsletter – July 2022 A while ago, I was thinking back to when I studied what used to be called ‘computing’ and people wrote programs. In those primitive times, when only Macs (nobody talked about ‘Apple’) had graphical user interfaces, I remember once using what we thought was a pretty funky language called prolog to …

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